THE TECHNICAL ELEMENTS OF MEDIA LANGUAGE
Code
Convention
Encode
Decode
Mise-en-scene
Things that can connect the viewer with the producer:
- Set Design
- Costumes
- Props
- Staging and Composition
- Colour
- Acting (facial expressions, body language, vocal qualities)
Camera
Movement
- Track (camera follows the subject as if it were someone walking with them)
- Pan (camera stays still but follows the subject's movements in parallel horizontally)
- Crane (camera moves around the subject such as being moved on a crane)
- Dolly (cameraman walks towards the subject and the field depth will change around the subject
through manual zoom)
- Zoom (camera lens zooms in, cutting part of the frame and keeping the field depth the same)
- Tilt (camera goes goes to the subject vertically)
Shots & Angles
Sound
- Diegetic Sound (can be heard by everyone including characters, such as dialogue and physical objects on screen)
- Non-Diegetic Sound (can only be heard by audience, such as ambient sounds, narration, music, sound effects, etc.)
Editing
- Cut (transition from one shot into another)
- Cross Cutting (gives the appearance that two storylines are happening)
- Dissolve (beginning of one shot gradually overlaps the end of another)
- Reverse Shot (two characters in the same scene who are filmed separately using different camera angles)
- Iris
- Flashback
- Fade
